{"id":8509,"date":"2014-01-18T19:21:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T00:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2014-01-18T19:21:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T00:21:24","slug":"adrian-peterson-considering-groin-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/18\/adrian-peterson-considering-groin-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Peterson considering groin surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/20140118-191636.jpg\" alt=\"20140118-191636.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nAdrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings is considering undergoing offseason groin surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson plans to visit with a specialist next week to decide if surgery is needed. This is in addition to a foot injury. <\/p>\n<p>The star running back has been dealing with the groin issue since mid-November and missed two of the Vikings&#8217; final three games due to his injuries.  <\/p>\n<p>USA Today&#8217;s Tom Pelissero says one possibility is a minimally-invasive adductor release that would require about two months of rehab. Peterson&#8217;s status for training camp will be in question. Peterson should have no trouble being ready for Week 1.  <\/p>\n<p>The Vikings have a new offensive coordinator in Norv Turner but will continue to rely on one of its key playmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings is considering undergoing offseason groin surgery. Peterson plans to visit with a specialist next week to decide if surgery is needed. This is in addition to a foot injury. The star running back has been dealing with the groin issue since mid-November and missed two of the Vikings&#8217; final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}